Charity, Prosperity, and the Industrial Complex
by Margaret Coady
Peter Buffett's New York Times Op-Ed piece "The Charitable-Industrial Complex" reads like the diary of an early explorer, a mix of insightful and simplistic observations of the new world he's been thrust into as co-Chair of the NoVo Foundation: the wild territory at the intersection of money, politics, and highly-complex societal problems.
For me, focusing on his closing wish for greater humanism is his most valuable provocation: he calls for "a functioning society that truly creates greater prosperity for all," appropriately noting that prosperity should not be confused with the blind accumulation of material goods.
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*Originally posted on Huffington Post Business on August 16, 2013
